On the left panel of this page you will find different construction glossaries. No translations, just English definitions, but the first step is to understand the meaning, so...http://www.contractorreferral.com/#

It is the same tool made by bruno, but improved! I find it useful for it to show me the string lengths AND time length always

It is always useful to double check if there's gaps, if there isn't subs too fast, or too long in text (which the script will accuse all subs above 70 chars, but since it also shows sting length, you can ignore most of that output looking for subs above the 84 teoretical maximum) - althou with transcriptions made by the Transcription team, they should be already perfect ^_^

I would like to share here some tools but in a connected way to a specific setting and even a strategy. Let me know if it is something that can be developed with your experience in translations. Because that is exactly the situation; when I am translating I am using:

- Google Translator Toolkit, (http://translate.google.com/toolkit) because it is the preferred translation assistant tool of the Portuguese_PT team and, since they are using it after more than 1 year and there is a huge Brazilian community using it too, it "learned" (added to the data base) many expressions and it gives, today, very good results;

- On another tab I use an English online dictionary that helps me understand the meaning, or possible meanings, of a specific term. The dictionary can be, for example, http://dictionary.reference.com; Like Lizardman said, the 1st step is to understand what is being said in English
In the same instant of this "translation strategy", I use also Google and Wikipedia, in order to find situations where those terms/phrases where used, giving me a better grasp of what they mean/can be intended to mean.

- A very accurate online translator, that Vixi already suggested here on a previous post:http://www.wordreference.com helps me find the equivalent to Portuguese, when I don't know it or feel that a better suggestion might exist that I am not aware of;

- In another tab I keep an online Portuguese dictionary open, which helps me to know if there are better synonyms or expressions in Portuguese for that English term and the situation in which it is being used (http://www.priberam.pt)

And finally, I keep the LTI forum thread open, usually on the "help desk" section and being a thread of the same name as the project I am translating, so I wont forget to share the doubts and considerations I have, which always have a return, if not in the same day it comes a bit later; very useful for corrections, coherence with the other teams translations and even to share the link, later on, with the Portuguese proofreader who will take that project after me. (http://forum.linguisticteam.org/board217-help-desk/)

And here is an extremely useful tool. If you have several websites that you search for a word or term, what do you usually do? You open one, write the word, click Search. Then the next one, write the word, search. Then the next one... This is manual and a waste of time. So, what if you could press a shortkey and have a site opened and automatically search for your word? This can be a very good time-saver.

IntelliWebSearch does exactly that. You configure, through its Wizard, which sites you want to search, configure the shortkeys for them, and then you type the word only once and then press Alt+1 (at least that's what shortkeys I use) for your first site, Alt+2 for the second, etc. It will automatically open the sites, write the word (or word combination) and press the search button.

For sites like http://www.tausdata.org/ and http://glosbe.com/ and the search function in Proz, and whatever else you use, you can configure your language (from which to which language) and search settings, and it will remember them. You do all of this through the program's Wizard or through the site itself (if it remembers your search settings).

What may be difficult for some people is the configuration part. Still, with a bit of effort and spending of time you can tailor it to your needs. Then, you can share the program's settings file with other people, so that they wouldn't need to configure everything (or, in fact, anything) themselves. I also recommend that you keep this configuration file in a partition of your hard drive which you don't format. That way you won't need to reconfigure everything again after you reinstall your operating system. To set the folder where the program keeps its settings, right click on the icon that stays on the right side of your taskbar when you start the program, then select Program Settings, then go to Advanced.

If you've got any questions about this, I'd be happy to answer. IntelliWebSearch is a BIG time-saver, and can increase the quality of your translations by giving you instant search in multiple places.